Projects and Initiatives

The electric system improvements to Ann Arbor region will enhance the reliability of electric service to the area and create additional capacity to support growth throughout the region. Construction continues on schedule and is anticipated to be completed by early 2019.

Projects and Initiatives

Our Customers

ITC Holdings Inc. and CIPCO share an integrated system area in Iowa to transmit electricity to residents in both rural and urban areas. Gary Slaby, vice president utility operations for CIPCO, details the partnership and its benefits.

Our Customers

A Modern Power Grid

WIRES recently applauded the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) decision to proceed on Grid Resiliency, asserting that a robust transmission grid offers resource diversity and operational flexibility that is critically important to prevent, mitigate and recover from service disruptions.

A Modern Power Grid

Operational Excellence

ITC’s operational excellence continues as it recorded a .5 incident rate in 2017 compared to the EEI average of 1.5. The lost work day rate at .15 was also considerably lower than the EEI average of .45.

Operational Excellence

Community Approach

ITC partnered with the Michigan Science Center to host a special Arbor Day program for students throughout Michigan. The program will highlight the museum’s new ECHO Distance Learning Program that uses video conferencing to connect classrooms to a museum educator in real time.

Community Commitment

HOPE Village Freedom School Starts the Day with "Harambee!!"

For six weeks this summer, children from the HOPE Village area of Detroit learned the meaning of Harambee, or "let’s pull together," as they gathered for the inaugural Focus: HOPE Village Freedom School program. Conducted in partnership with the Children’s Defense Fund, HOPE Village Freedom School is based on a national model to promote literacy and academic success. The program ensures that each child receives a "healthy start, head start, fair start, safe start and moral start." Each morning begins with Harambee time, when song, dance, cheers, chants, reading and reflection come together to get students excited and ready to learn before they head to their classroom programs.

"Harambee is an amazing time. We engage learners of all styles. We sing songs, we do dances, we’re spelling...all in the name of fun and education. The two aren’t mutually exclusive," says Claricha Evans, project director for HOPE Village Freedom School. “Not only do we see reading gains…we also see students whose attitudes towards reading change. We read a book every day and at the end of each week they go home with a book.”

Education is a key focus area of ITC’s Charitable Giving Program. A grant from the program gave Focus HOPE the final funding piece needed to launch HOPE Village Freedom School in June.

"Supporting the HOPE Village Freedom School is an investment in our children’s future and the communities we serve," says Donna Zalewski, director of community affairs for ITC. “The program is establishing a strong foundation for learning and literacy at an early age, which is so critical.”

"HOPE Village Freedom School fits so well with HOPE’s mission," says Stephanie Moore, project lead for HOPE Village Freedom School. The goal of the HOPE Village Initiative "is to create a pipeline of support for area children so that by 2031, 100 percent of our residents are economically self-sufficient, educationally well prepared and living in a safe and supportive environment. Village Freedom School is the first segment in that pipeline."

ITC Charitable Giving

The ITC Charitable Giving Program focuses on five key areas to help strengthen our communities and reflect the values of ITC. Those include education, environmental stewardship, social services, health & wellness and arts & culture.